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Rh as it is in one or two cases, under good masters. But I now know enough not to let myself be beguiled, even by good people, to believe what a young, handsome gentleman (either stupid or false) assured me last evening, that the slaves in America are “as happy as can be!” My new friends are evidently kind and warm-hearted people, and forget how often others are different.

When I write next I shall tell you more about the free people, and the slave people, and slavery in the gay city of New Orleans. 